skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So instead of it being $1000... it's $950... that's like me calling an item $10 when in reality its 9.99. The point still stands.

"Texas" Texas also has stand your ground laws and castle defense... so it's a lot easier to stop criminals. IE: Florida where a sheriff said "We have free gun classes so you can help save tax payers money when defending your property by not missing" (paraphrased).

The point still stands: CA took a $50 limit, bumped it up to $950, elects DAs that don't prosecute misdeamenors - and, as such, store owners don't report crimes that won't lead to prosecutions. Why waste the time? - so when you look at it from a statistical perspective? Oh look... crime numbers are down.

Never mind that more stuff is being stole on a more consistent basis... the lack of higher level crimes (Fewer felonies) and the lack of prosecutions (Why prosecute a misdemeanor as a DA... and why report stuff to police that won't get prosecuted as a business owner...) look better on paper but businesses and people are more unsafe than ever.
> their thought-leadership has lived on to become much of what we today consider fundamental internet technology and methodology.

The FLAC codec was developed by deadhead tapers.
Wouldn't be that Nashville? IDK that much about Taylor Swift, but that's the only city that comes in mind.
> I mean if you're going to lie why not go bigger

Google podcasts, Stadia, shitton of other discontinued applications?
It's because the police are always on the side of capital
20 years ago I made an ActiveX component which can show an interactive 3D scene in any Office app or in the browser. I was able to make in just a few weeks.

...

It is currently impossible to use full MS Office to edit documents which exist within Teams. You can only use a web-based version of Office apps (which don't have same capabilities, same UI, etc.).

Sad. It's like nobody gives a fuck about user experience anymore...

What's the selling point of Windows? They made all these frameworks, Office, communication software like Teams, One Drive, etc. It is supposed to all work together. But it just doesn't.

Might as well use Linux where each app is on its own.
This is useful thanks although the goal of this tool is to put all photos in chronologically ordered folders. It doesn't seem to yet be able to recreate albums either by using folders and symlinks or (preferrably) adding tags in the exif metadata.

I'll give it a try with takeout again.
Some conferences fall under this.
This requires using arenas extensively in your program or perhaps playing tricks with virtual memory, because your system allocator will give you arbitrary pointers by default and you'll often want to point to an object from a different allocation.
> The Chinese government has access to the iCloud account of every Chinese Apple user.

Source?
But there is no restriction on American listeners tuning in to foreign radio stations.

Americans are free to read foreign books, watch foreign news, browse foreign websites.
I think people like it because it has less acid.

AFAIK the aromatics in coffee are quite volatile so what you end up with is like "grain soup". The coffee tastes more like the roast than the actual coffee.
I was on the NUC search a while ago and I'm not sure you can. Although the AMD motherboards may not support ECC, I haven't heard of any that actually don't. Best bet is probably to buy a recent, barebones AMD NUC, and buy the ECC RAM yourself. Sometimes they'll advertise ECC support as well.
The way I handled interviews during my short stint as a manager was to just ask questions related to the task the person was going to do. No general "coding questions", no need for that, the specific topic they'll be working on.

"Have you heard of X? How would you deal with Y in situation Z? Your CV says you worked on A, have you also looked into B? Any guess why we went with B instead of A for C?"

They didn't need to give the exact answer we wanted, the questions they asked in response often told us more than the straight answers.

Everyone I hired is still at the company and one of them sped up our tool by an order of magnitude. No coding challenges needed.
Good question. Of all my interests, hiking is the most compatible with apartment living. :-) When I was living in an apartment, the usual problem was finding a place to store equipment. I eventually gave up and found a way to semi-permanently stage my kit in my car. This made it easier to have a grumpy moment and flee to a trailhead.
> The build quality of Apple laptops is still pretty unmatched in every price category.

I owned a MacBook Pro with the dreaded butterfly keyboard. It was shit.

How many USB ports do the new MacBook air have? The old ones had two. And shipped with 8GB of RAM? These are shit-tier specs.

The 2020 MacBook pros had a nice thing: USB-C charging, and you could charge the from either side. Current models went back to MagSafe, only on one side. The number of USB ports is still very low.

But the are shiny. I guess that counts as quality.
There is a difference though, it's which side they're on
Why Animals Run Faster Than Robots
It is, provided that the hardware vendor has reasonably decent support for power management, and you're willing to haul around an AC adapter if not. In general, I really like AMD hardware with built-in graphics for this, or alternately, Intel Tiger Lake-U based hardware.

Asahi Linux is shockingly great on Apple Silicon hardware, though.
Reaction I: Cross off "kind of"

Reaction II: Well...Japan often is an extremely poor fit for Western conceptual pigeonholes...
Algae Out of Balance
Anarchy does not mean absence of organisation. It means absence of unfair dominance and control of one over another. An anarchist society could be highly organised, in all kinds of ways people decide to.
I think employers hate having to deal with a gatekeeper and some rubric as to who they can hire to do what, how much to pay them etc

I've worked in places where there was union labor for building management. You literally weren't allowed to unplug your computer and move it yourself. You had to file a ticket and have somebody come and do it for you and bill handsomely to do it. What's not to love from an employer perspective?
I'd call it blessed ignorance.

Have a look at this for some very informed and depressing opinions: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/...
It’s ironic that in the era of the hyperlinked world wide web, we are farther than ever from that vision of linkable and embeddable software components and application interoperability.
Also, data races in Go are trivially addressed using the common pipeline / CSP pattern, since channels are serializing. Of course, it doesn’t eliminate the possibility of doing stupid concurrency things, and you could of course argue that giving users trivially easy concurrency primitives encourages stupid concurrency, but I think it is fair to say that in most cases, Go idioms and primitives make race-free concurrency pretty easy. You have to go out of your way to write racy Go, and there’s nothing really preventing people from going out of their way to write unsafe Rust, either.
> The equivalent (based on raw specs) in the PC world runs for $300 to $500.

Equivalent device?! Find me Windows laptop in ANY price category that can match weight, fanless design, screen quality, battery life, speakers quality and battery life of Air.
You do not have to wait for food to run out. There is always 'that one guy trying to ice skate uphill'. They test the limits on everything and do not care about others at all. It only takes one jerk to ruin a party. I know at least 4 people like this, probably more (they hide it better). They would rob you in a heartbeat if they could get away with it and even if they cant. But in general they seem nice and happy and stable. The reality is they just do not want to get caught.
Graeber was anarchist but did work to make it palatable to liberal minded readers. Graeber doesn’t advocate for hierarchy. If you want examples of how the O of the Anarchy symbol could work and maybe did work in our human past, as organizations without hierarchy, see Dawn of Everything
This is where GDPR and friends should come in. If they won't do it the friendly way, they should do it the hard way.

Lawyers are a little more expensive than handling a click, especially at scale.
Group dynamics of doom are an interesting thing. At one point I worked for a company that was taken over by private equity who worked quite diligently to send all the jobs to India. Joining team meetings was a bit surreal; we all seemed to be trying to put a happy face on the situation (myself included) but occasionally there would be cracks. I'd also hear about people breaking down and crying in more private moments.

> Call it head in the sand if you want but I'd rather live this way than most of these comments.

I think denial is an important human quality; ultimately, we are all doomed anyway. It's something I've never been all that good at. I certainly see the dichotomy between those that have children and those that don't. I'm sure there are selection affects there regarding optimism, but if you have children, it's very hard to believe that they will face terrible hardship in the future. But the data is the data, regardless of our belief.
Highly recommend at least skimming the full episode.

https://youtu.be/WltjaxiowW4?si=KkVJPy_e7ALQulE-
They Used Resume Spammers to Apply for 120 Jobs. Chaos Ensued
But the First Ammendment really does say "Congress shall make no law .." without any caveats for national security or even war-time exemptions.
I wonder if the software quality is lower for self-driving in non-US roads. I assume there would be less focus on development and testing in other markets.
It's been 25 years since the release of C# and 30 since the release of Java. The fact C# isn't everywhere Java is has nothing to do with "first-mover advantage" as you call it but is due to the fact that C# is open-source software, which is not the same as Free Software. Java, even Oracle's Java, is controlled by the community; .NET is controlled by Microsoft. That's the difference.
Are newer airs good enough for development?
> "userspace also has many rather prominent differences ... (like different command line switches for the same commands)."

Very quickly remedied by installing the GNU versions of those commands, ie: "brew install coreutils findutils" (etc)

Then you'll have exactly the same command line switches as on Linux.
Zimtohrli: A New Psychoacoustic Perceptual Metric for Audio Compression
Anarchism has been unfairly maligned, it’s basically associated with bomb thrower. But it’s really not about that.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. This is exactly what GDPR was made for. Good thing I have only like 2 answers on SO, lol.
For use cases which aren't bare-metal embedded:

1) Prefer the stack wherever possible.

2) RC.

3) Unique pointers by default unless explicitly noted otherwise.

4) Immutable arguments and returns by default unless explicitly noted otherwise.

There's a language that does this all already, and it's called Nim.
They have their own version called struct which works in a very similar way. I feel like this should be mentioned when saying that `class` support didn't yet exist
> advantage if it discourages you from using flowery prose.

I've always said that "flowery prose" is something that needs to make a comeback. I really miss that style of writing. What fun to read! The 'modern' impulse for 'efficient' writing is at least a contributing factor to the decline in reading I daresay.
Does GDPR apply to non-personal data that you've generated?
An allocator is free to only `mmap` addresses that are within a range. I think jemalloc could allow you to do that using custom arenas.
> If the client is interpreting the content and then displaying its interpretation to the user, then it's not plain text anymore, is it?

Yes it is.

> It's a format

Yes, plain text is a format. The best format.

> in this case it's a poorly-specified, ad-hoc format and broken format[1] that is worse than simply having a reduced ad-hoc HTML format.

Well sure, plain text sucks at being HTML. That's because it isn't HTML; it's plain text. Plain text is not "poorly-specified, ad-hoc and broken" as plain text; only as HTML. The solution is not to use it as HTML.

> For example, what if the sender types in `You should go to http://ww.example.com, where "example" must be replaced with your company name`? Suddenly `www.example.com` has an unintended DDoS!

Ah, so that doesn't happen if the sender types in the wrong thing in HTML...?
Heard a lot about Erlang, but still couldn't get how it is can be compared to temporal.
You should try Java and C# again. They have added lambdas and the support for high order functions is quite good. Sure, there is missing some things like guaranteed tail call optimization.
On the contrary, the maintenance and continued improvement of an entire ISA and ISA specific operating systems is exactly my idea of hardcore tech, i.e. continuing to pay a chip org to design new chips for said ISA every generation and implement new instructions...and continuing to pay OS and compiler programmers to work those into their OS's and compilers...I'm not sure where we draw the line on maintenance vs. continued development here, but I'm not sure I'd call that purely maintenence.

There really aren't a lot of companies out there that can claim to do similar (and of course besides s390x, an ancient and venerable CISC, IBM also has Power, so they are doing this 2x over). You'll find a lot of IBM employees contributing to what I'd consider "hardcore" tech like LLVM and the Linux kernel as a result, because they genuinely have a large amount of expertise in those and similar areas. And here I'm not even really including Red Hat, but if you include them then they are even more overweight in the hardcore tech category.

If anything, a lot of the rest of the tech industry has left "hardcore tech" behind due to efficiency concerns as a result of a longrunning industry wide process of consolidation and commodification that IBM has resisted for obvious reasons. IBM is hardcore to a fault if anything.

TLDR: I actually think IBM punches above their weight in the "hardcore tech" area so long as our definition is sufficiently low level rather than say, cloud services, in which case fair enough you can probably fairly say they suck at that.

Here I've also chosen to entirely ignore IBM research.
Content you have voluntarily published under the terms of a platform, which presumably grants StakOverflow all commercial rights, won't fall under GDPR. You can request your personal information to be deleted, not the content you produced under contract and which you no longer own.
It’s sad to see the death pangs of one of the most useful resources of my career.
Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

How about repeatedly changing just a few characters, corrupting the post over a period of time? (Entrepreneurs: you can have "SO post gradual corruption as a service" for free, you're welcome)
Weight

> 3.92 lb

Battery life

> 6.5 h

Probably half of that.

Fans that sound like jet engine, screen quality which would force me to stab my eyes, speakers sounding worse than a toilet, plastic build.

I'm not convinced.
I consider taking while I code to be a somewhat useful skill. I’m totally capable of verbalizing my thought process as I work through a problem
Pretty sure gdpr requires you write to them first, and if they don't comply, you write to the data commissioner. E.g: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Llama is owned by Meta, so you’d be suing meta

But I’m pretty sure both models have “we’re not responsible” clauses.
The state doesn't enforce anything resembling justice for rape. Rape is rarely prosecuted and difficult to prove in a court of law.
Jolie stands for 'pretty/beautiful/attractive' in feminine form in french and is sometimes used as a noon when mentioning a person more often in a condescending manner.
It's not as if we could leave out sprinklers and fire escapes from buildings, and all of a sudden, housing would be cheap.

There's a lot more to fire codes than just sprinklers and fire escapes. If you could ignore all fire codes (and related requirements) then it would definitely be possible to build both more and cheaper apartments than you can now. Not saying it's necessarily a good idea, and they almost certainly wouldn't be nice places to live. But a lot of people would take unsafe, uncomfortable and affordable over safe, comfortable and completely unaffordable.
Preventing people from deleting all their answers has long been the policy; this is nothing new.

And before anyone brings it up: GDPR does not mean "every single bit of information I ever wrote can be deleted whenever I want". Not on HN, and certainly not on Stack Overflow where you agreed to have everything under the CC license. It's painful how badly some people understand the GDPR.
I think you're responding to the statement of not having kids at all, instead of the statement about adopting kids
Same thing is happening in London's Soho. New 'luxury flats' blocks are being built and life gets sucked out of the place through gentrification, but I guess Soho Estates is happy. Another victim of this short-term developer greed is London's Denmark Street where Jimmy, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and the rest of the world's rock and pop royalty used to hang out, record, and shop for gear. That area could have been turned into London's mini Nashville with recording studios and clubs, but instead we got the Outernet monstrosity. Most of the old shops are gone, the only ones surviving are maybe three guitar shops. There are a couple of new ones, Roland and Korg, but the staff are so incompetent that I don't see them lasting.
Title is a little misleading. Regardless of one's opinion on StackOverflow's partnership with OpenAI, editing existing questions & answers to replace them with protest messages fully fits their rules' definition of defacing.

Editing the answers through SO's tools is not the right way to protest (since it's trivial for them to suspend you because you're clearly violating their rules); the GDPR is. Making a GDPR deletion request is quite easy.
Arguably the only good and still relevant part of OLE is COM by way of providing a stable C-ABI-tunnel for versioned C++ APIs in Windows system DLLs (but also trivially mappable to other language bindings like C# or Rust), e.g. it's the stable and backward compatible C++ ABI that C++ compilers never were able to agree on ;)

Most COM APIs are quite painful to work with, but in many cases that's just bad API design (the D3D APIs show that it can also be a lot less painful).
Coppola’s new movie Megalopolis is according to him primarily inspired by the works of Graeber and Wengrow including Dawn of Everything

When it’s reported to be a political film, it may be specifically anarchist, very interesting
Even if they restored us from a good backup, we probably wouldn't like the debugging session that follows.
Coming from both environments, I'd be wary of making some of these assertions, especially when you consider that any ecosystem that optimizes software and hardware together (from embedded devices all the way to general-purpose computing machines) is generally going to perform well, given the appropriate engineering focus. This applies regardless of (RT)OS / hardware choice, i.e., it's simply common sense.

The signing of binaries is a part of adult developer life, and is certainly required for the platforms you mention as well.

Unquestionably, battery life on 4090-based laptops sucks on a good day, and if you're working long hours, the last thing you want to have to do is park yourself next to your 350W adapter just to get basic work done.
GDPR allows you to get your personal identifiable information removed, not content.

And GDPR is an eu thing not a usa thing.
> It's just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit.

Let's be honest, your answers on StackOverflow was never _not_ used for profit.
I'm not sure that anarchism works, but what I will say is that you can't really translate the way that people behave "in captivity" into an anarchist state.

For example, I gladly would give money to fund infrastructure in my neighbourhood, I help my friends, family, my neighbourhood both financially and with time, etc. I enjoy helping out those in genuine need.

When that becomes taxation and when I end up being forced under the threat of violence to fund all sorts of stuff that I don't feel I (or anyone) should be paying for, my behaviour changes, because it no longer makes me feel good to do so.

So I end up minimizing my taxes due, earning less via income, trying to avoid paying for things like parking etc etc because it doesn't feel like a fair and equal trade.

A lot of people feel this way.
“Fairly easy” for those of us with a technical background. I'm not volunteering to explain that to the CEO when he hears about this and asks how he can access internal company resources safely while mobile!
Ye, this sounds reasonable. Sad.
Here's a cached copy of the linked post on a server with more capacity: https://mastodon.social/@ben@m.benui.ca
Meta seem to be thinking 10 years ahead where anyone can run these models at the edge.

Perhaps it's not about where the model is hosted but what can be built on it.

Meta have added Llama3 across the board on all their apps.

Chat is fun but in the wrong context it's useless. However the training data return on millions of users is something interesting to pay attention to.... Llama4 might be a significant jump!

Increased model intelligence and innovative applications of language technology will be where the real value appears. Open-sourcing and allowing public amplification of abilities and enhancements is a very smart move.

The marketing department is also commendable. What happened to Grok? LLMs are everywhere - we're running them on home computers, that's where we should be pondering the next moves.
It was also the #1 source of performance and crasher bugs on OS X.

IIRC, at one point it accounted for something like 50% of the incoming bug reports.
I love coding interviews. Lets me show off my ChatGPT skills and ability to filter out the bs that llm spits out, and make it into a clean and coherent response in real time.
I don’t think questions and answers that were willingly published count as GDPR data. SO probably retains rights to them.
It's a combination... DAs wont prosecute misdemeanors - which businesses won't then report... and DAs are also not prosecuting those higher crimes as well - which also means businesses won't report.

Part me of wonders... others are saying "all that theft is employee driven" as a talking point (yeah, I've got my own talking points too. Se'la'vie lol) - how much of it is old data - data from a decade ago before the soft on crime, defund the police crowd took over - and how much of it is employees not reporting crimes that waste everyones time in the current climate.

It'll be interesting to see if we get real data over the years and can look back at this failed experiment on "justice" objectively enough to show what an utter disaster it currently is.
Not sure how GDPR applies to content you wrote using another service. GDPR does not apply to the content you wrote on Facebook, it only applies to your personal information Facebook is collecting while you write said content.
The web again. iframes have limited permissions and both host and child page are sandboxed from each other to some extent.